Lorenzo Hammarsköld (b. ''Lars Hammarskjöld'', 7 April 1785 – 15 October 1827) was a

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critic and literary historian. He also published poetry.

Biography

He was born at

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. He became a student at

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in 1801, but failed to take his degree in 1806. He therefore accepted a humble post at the royal library at Stockholm, with which institution he remained connected for many years. In 1804 he published an article on

Ludwig Tieck Johann Ludwig Tieck (; ; 31 May 177328 April 1853) was a German poet, fiction writer, translator, and critic. He was one of the founding fathers of the Romanticism, Romantic movement in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Early life Tieck w ...

and

Novalis Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg (2 May 1772 – 25 March 1801), pen name Novalis (; ), was a German nobility, German aristocrat and polymath, who was a poet, novelist, philosopher and Mysticism, mystic. He is regarded as an inf ...

, which attracted much attention, and was the means of founding the “Phosphoric School,” as it was called, of poetry in Sweden. Hammarsköld became the friend of

Atterbom Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom (19 January 1790 in Åsbo, Östergötland – 21 July 1855) was a Swedish romantic poet, and a member of the Swedish Academy. Life He was the son of a country parson, born in the province of Ostergotland on 19 Janu ...

and antagonist of Wallmark, and in due time, by the bitterness of his tone, brought down on himself the scathing anger of

Esaias Tegnér Esaias Tegnér (; – ) was a Swedish writer, professor of Greek, and bishop. During the 19th century, he was regarded as the father of modern poetry in Sweden, mainly through the national romantic epic '' Frithjof's Saga''. He has been called ...

. In 1806 he published ''Translations and Imitations of Poets, Old and New'', in the preface of which he denounced the classic Swedish writers with much force and wit, commending Goethe and Tieck to the young poets of the day. In 1803 appeared his ''Critique of Schiller'', and in 1810 a volume of essays of a polemical kind. In 1813 Hammarsköld published a collection of his poems, and in 1815 had to endure the ridicule of Tegnér's satire ''Hammarspik''. In 1818 appeared the first part of Hammarsköld's chief contribution to literature, his famous ''Svenska Vitterheten'', a history of polite letters in Sweden, a book that was revised and republished after his death by Sondén, in 1833. Hammarsköld was among the first to recognise the talent of the poet

Erik Johan Stagnelius Erik Johan Stagnelius (14 October 17933 April 1823) was a Swedish Romantic poet, playwright and romantic critic of political economy. 1810 to 1840 was a time of blossoming in Swedish poetry, and there were several writers of distinguished m ...

. He collected the works of the deceased poet and published his poems in 1824–26.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hammarskold, Lorenzo 1785 births 1827 deaths Hammarskjöld family Swedish-language writers 19th-century Swedish poets Swedish literary critics Swedish literary historians Swedish male poets 19th-century Swedish male writers People from Vimmerby Municipality